David Damore (Political Science) recently published "Race for the Senate 2018: Key Issue in Nevada" on the Brookings Institution's FixGov Blog. The piece provides an overview of the 2018 U.S. Senate campaign in Nevada between incumbent Republican Dean Heller and Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen.

David Damore and Tiffiany Howard (both Political Science) recently attended the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association in Orlando, Florida. Damore completed his term as association president, while Howard was named to the association Executive Council for a two-year term. Howard also was invited by the Southwestern Social…

The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West served as co-sponsors of the American Planning Association Nevada Chapter Annual State Conference earlier this month. As such, many UNLV faculty members presented their research on critical policy areas for our state through various conference sessions.  Robert Lang and William…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) is the author of an article, "Patience, Dynamic of Protest, and Democratic Consolidation," which recently published in European Political Science. This article shows how people's time-discounting tendency may impact their decision to join the mass demonstration. In the long run, how citizens…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science, WRIN), along with Valerie Sulfaro of James Madison University, recently was honored by the Women's Caucus for Political Science (WCPS) with the 2018 Jane Mansbridge Award. This award is given on special occasions to extraordinary individuals who perform service above and beyond the call of duty on behalf of…

Jonathan R. Strand  (Political Science) has been elected to the editorial board of the journal PS: Political Science & Politics, which is published by the American Political Science Association.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) coauthored an article, "Extreme Candidates as the Beneficent Spoiler? Range Effect in the Plurality Voting System," which recently published in Political Research Quarterly. This article provides evidence showing that the entrance of an extreme candidate may impact how voters perceive other moderate…

Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) and a team of political scientists from around the country, Nadia Brown (Purdue), Jennifer Merolla (University of California, Riverside), Melissa Michelson (Menlo College), Elizabeth Sharrow (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Patricia Stapleton (Worcester Polytechnic…

Steven Landis (Political Science) is the author of a paper that has been accepted for publication in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. 

Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) delivered the keynote address at the 13th annual Nevada Women's Hall of Fame reunion earlier this month. The event honored the 2018 inductees, as well as the 2018 Pioneer Award Honoree, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. In her speech, Gill discussed the progress of women in…

Christian Jensen (Political Science) and Rebecca Gill (Political Science, WRIN) recently published "Where are the women? Legal traditions and descriptive representation on the European Court of Justice" in Politics, Groups, and Identities. This article  demonstrates the importance of informal job requirements and institutional…

The UNLV Debate Team (Communication Studies) of Matthew Gomez (Political Science) and Jeffrey Horn (Economics) won the Las Vegas Classic Debate Tournament, held at UNLV in October.  Gomez and Horn finished the preliminary debates with a perfect 7-0 record, defeating teams from Gonzaga, Arizona State University,…